Seated Nude Young Man in Nearly Frontal View
Medium
Modified black chalk (dipped in a gum solution), traces of white gouache highlights, on light brown paper
Dimensions
sheet: 23 x 16-7/16 in. (58.4 x 41.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Rogers Fund and Mr. and Mrs. David M. Tobey Gift, 2004
Accession Number
2004.250
Tags
About the Artist
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · 1591–1666
Guercino — the nickname meaning "squint-eyed" — was born Giovanni Francesco Barbieri in Cento, near Ferrara, in 1591. Largely self-taught in his early years, he absorbed the dramatic chiaroscuro of Ludovico Carracci's work in Bologna and the naturalistic innovations spreading from Caravaggio's circle, forging from these influences a highly personal style of extraordinary expressive power. By his e...